Re: BlizzardPPC diagnostic

[Andreas <aw...@sw...>]

Hello Kulwant

Am 30-Jan-03 schrieb Kulwant Bhogal:

> Hello all,
> 
> Firstly apologies for being off topic. But I guess this was the ideal place
> to ask this question - I believe somebody here may also have access to some
> technical reference information too (hopefully)...
> 
> As I guess everyone on this list probably has one of the Dual CPU PowerPC
> cards (Phase5 or DCE), has anyone come across the power up diagnostic code
> of 10 short Amiga Power LED flashes followed by 1 long flash? (Definitely
> 10, not 9. I believe 9 means RAM test failure, but this is 10 and I have not
> found any information for 10 anywhere yet). 

Dunno about that! But I had simialr problems, see below. And I believe the LED
was flashing for a funky long time!

> Does anyone know what it is trying to tell me? Does anyone know what the fix
> is? (Please don't say send to DCE for testing and/or repairs, because I have
> heard some really scary stories about that).

Yeah, but there have also been a lot of success stories with extremely fast
repairs!

But a rule of thumb seems to be that you shouldn't send them emails, just drop
a phone call, and you will get what you want.

> My BlizzardPPC (240MHz, 50MHz 060, SCSI-II, BVision and 96Mb RAM) has been
> doing this since yesterday. Sometimes it repeats that sequence a number of
> times before the machine successfully boots, other times it doesn't boot and
> I have to power cycle and try again. Before this everything has been woking
> fine for nearly 3 years. The Clock backup battery was replaced a few months
> ago.

Well, I have a CybersstormPPC here, but the main problem often seems to be the
connector from the PPC board itself to the motherboard. Take the card out,
clean the connector (the electronics dealer of your trust should have some
good spray), then put it back in, and make sure that the connection is very
though! But don't break or flex the board while pushing it in!! Also, take out the RAM's and clean em too.

I had this kind of problem for a very long time, sometimes it managed to boot,
sometimes not, and since the scsci controller is on the board too, I got some
very nasty disk problems. Since pulling the card out and cleaning it, I have
*never* had any problem like that anymore! (I also had a lot of crashes on the
linux side during this period.)

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Best wishes,
Andi